Time To Remember The Sacrifice
My parents slept in our place last night after attending church. Partly because it rained hard in a supposed to be summer month, ohhh, crazy climate change. Early this morning, wifey went early to a nearby market to buy heart friendly food for everyone, specially for my mom who is on maintenance medication for BP and cholesterol. After an early lunch, my boy and I drove our parents back to their place and he saw me hand over some cash to my mother. On our way home, he asked how much I gave and why.
I took the chance to explain to him that aside from mother’s day, it is only proper to gift our parents with lots of love, expressed in different ways. I shared with him also that his grandparents sacrificed a lot for me and my 3 siblings when we are still young. And given the means, I will give more to them. Motherhood is an expensive job without salary, and treating mothers like a COO or President of a corporation is only proper. Yes they are not perfect, but they are still our mother.
Productivity and Chartered Flights
Last week, I heard an upset colleague who is on domestic travel because his flight was delayed for about 2 hours. The change of his departure affected his itinerary for the day. This is exactly the reason why top executives would rather use a private plane for their travel. It won’t mess their schedule and affect their productivity.
In a competitive business environment, productivity, safety, cost control are given emphasis in decision making. And this is one reason, why commercial flights are becoming less attractive for business related travel. Aside from the waste of time due to waiting and delay on schedule, the traveling executive don’t have control over his itinerary. While big corporations can buy and maintain their own fleet, medium size companies can avail of chartered flights.
EntreCard Surprise
What a pleasant weekend surprise!
Sonnie’s Porch, at EntreCard (EC), is now at the top of its category for 2 consecutive days. EC has become a major source of traffic for this blog. After the regular rss and email subscribers, EC and search engine referrals are slugging it out on #2 and #3 position.
Not all are happy with EC because of it’s contribution to the high bounce rate brought about by mad dropping. While I recognize the problem, there are specific actions , though, to address this. In fact, developing a long term blog relationships is happening among regular droppers with the substantial increase of comments and discussions on blog posts.
Because of EC, however, this blog has been stumbled several times. So is the increase of twitter followers, and my bloglog and blog catalog buddies. The most important contribution of EC, perhaps, is with the increase of exposure, came also the increase of clicks in my ads.
Man Charged For Commenting In A Blog
A blogger was charged in Malaysia for sedition when he wrote an entry allegedly implicating their Deputy Prime Minister and his wife in the October 2006 gruesome killing of a Mongolian woman. A reader who find the entry interesting, and left a comment, was also charged. The blogger refused to post a bail believing he will be free before Christmas. It was not clear though, if the commenter was jailed or posted bail.
While it was common for a blogger to get sued, but a commenter? Well that’s news. I hope my readers will not get scared to speak their mind because of this incident 
You may read the news article here.
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Come To Papa
My son’s 11th birthday is just 2 weeks away, it seems like yesterday, we just observed his 1st birthday. For purposes of convenience, we held the party then in a kiddie restaurant so the birthday party favors and party supplies will not be a problem. As if the thought of having a party is not yet a good reason to celebrate, our son even made his first steps on his own giving us more reason to celebrate. My son’s name is Elhav, meaning gift of God. It was taken from two hebrew words (1) El for God and (2) Hav for gift. He came to our life only after 5 years of marriage. Wifey has retroverted uterus, and though a lot of people said it’s difficult for her to conceive a child, nothing is hard to the God we believe. We prayed and kept on believing, and we were gifted not only of Elhav, but also a daughter and we named her Elgene. Her name meant God of beginnings (El for God, Gene a variant of the first book of the Bible, Genesis, which means beginning).
Make Your Money Grow
I just heard over radio that fuel prices increased again @ 12:00 noon today by Php 1.00 or $.02 per liter. Add to the fact that rice price has not yet stabilized, and Thailand intend to convince the other rice producing ASEAN member nations to form a rice cartel patterned after OPEC who dictates the prices of fuel.
With these, it is only prudent to explore other means to earn. Investing our hard earned money in business or CDs is common, but have you heard substantial earnings when you buy silver or gold?
